REVIEW I

Introduction

1 Beginning
with today we will have a series of review periods. Each of them will
cover five of the ideas already presented, starting with the first
and ending with the fiftieth. There will be a few short comments
after each of the ideas, which you should consider in your review. In
the practice periods, the exercises should be done as follows:

2 Begin the
day by reading the five ideas, with the comments included.
Thereafter, it is not necessary to follow any particular order in
considering them, though each one should be practiced at least once.
Devote two minutes or more to each practice period, thinking about
the idea and the related comments after reading them over. Do this as
often as possible during the day. If any one of the five ideas
appeals to you more than the others, concentrate on that one. At the
end of the day, however, be sure to review all of them once more.

3
It is not necessary to cover the comments that follow each idea either
literally or thoroughly in the practice periods. Try, rather, to
emphasize the central point, and think about it as part of your
review of the idea to which it relates. After you have read the idea
and the related comments, the exercises should be done with your eyes
closed and when you are alone in a quiet place, if possible.

4 This is
emphasized for practice periods at your stage of learning. It will be
necessary, however, that you learn to require no special settings in
which to apply what you have learned. You will need your learning
most in situations that appear to be upsetting, rather than in those
that already seem to be calm and quiet. The purpose of your learning
is to enable you to bring the quiet with you, and to heal distress
and turmoil. This is not done by avoiding them and seeking a haven of
isolation for yourself.

5 You will
yet learn that peace is part of you, and requires only that you be
there to embrace any situation in which you are. And finally you will
learn that there is no limit to where you are, so that your peace is
everywhere, as you are.

6 You will
note that, for review purposes, some of the ideas are not given in
quite their original form. Use them as they are given here. It is not
necessary to return to the original statements, nor to apply the
ideas as was suggested then. We are now emphasizing the relationships
among the first fifty of the ideas we have covered, and the
cohesiveness of the thought system to which they are leading you.